Man Attempts to Set Off Explosives on Plane

Although I had to look up Hegelian dialectic, I am as it turns out quite familiar with it, as it is the stuff of Sociology 101 and is quite evident in
a number of leftist agendas over the last half century, including, but not limited to, the affirmative action, gun control, the concept of
homelessness as a social structural problem, feminism, affordable housing, healthcare reform, government bailouts.

Notice that I didn't mention the war on terror. This is a real problem, charaterized by a large number of individuals who are hell bent on
destroying the US and have made great strides in disrupting the our most valued social norms.

Ah yes, another little reminder from the U.S. government that we are still prone to terrorist attacks.

I'm sure everyone remembers those ridiculous gauges they used after 911 on every major news network to measure the terrorist level. Ya know, the one
that went to RED ALERT every time a Muslim farted.

In my opinion, the official 911 story and all of this terrorist business is all total BS! I don't understand how anyone could believe that the most
powerful country in the world would suffer a terrorist attack from a bunch of people living in caves.................please.

Anyone that believes in this terrorist crap is either:

A- Walking through this world with their eyes closed.
B- In extreme denial...............or
C- A little of both.

I expect to see the stocks of whoever makes those new full-body airport x-ray machines catapult upwards very soon. Funny, that!!!

And funny how 'inept' these bombers seem to be...!

My theory... This guy's operator/materials supplier/instructor was not AQ, but someone posing as such in order to create such an alarm for ulterior
motives. Materials and instructions supplied in order to create the exact effect that transpired.

Homelessness is a made up problem but terrorism is a real threat? Do you live in the U.S.?

I do in fact live in the US and I worked with the homeless for more than a year and a half in New Orleans.

It was there that I came to understand the phenomenon in great detail. However, you must realize that I am not speaking of the fact that some people
lose their homes and must live with relatives or even at a shelter until they get their lives back together.

I am speaking of the efforts by some to convince the public that there has been continuously in these United States social structural conditions that
necessarily lead to homelessness and have lead movements to establish the homeless as a distinct and static social class.

You see when you really understand an issue, it's complexity is not so hard to grasp, although defining the problem and solving it are quite
different than actually solving the problem.

Yes, terrorism is a real threat and I would have to wonder where you live, if you don't understand that.

This article provides much more than a picture of the underwear used to hide explosives. It also provides a very good synopsis of the incident, the
perpetrator, and the general problem of Islamic terrorism and the methods they use.

This article should be read by all.

Pictured: The charred remains of jet bomber's underwear in which he hid explosives to blow up plane

* Images show bomber hid explosives in his underpants
* Material was 'strong enough to blow a hole in the plane'
* Bomber spoke about Jihad in messages posted online
* Ex-Guantanamo Bay inmates 'were among the plotters'

Jasper Schuringa leaped over seats to tackle the Nigerian terror suspect."I really had to pull it out of his hands because he kind of resisted. And
it was also kind of stuck in his underwear," Jasper Schuringa told "Good Morning America" today.

"When I came to the seats he was holding ... the object which was on fire and smoke was coming out of it," Schuringa said. "I really had to rip the
whole object out of his pants."

I see your point, you're right about the drugs. Perhaps that's the real reason why are troops are over there. God bless anyone who serves in the
military............

But the thing is, this has nothing to do with drugs. My point was with the United States as powerful as we are, and with the intelligence agency we
have, there is no way they could have pulled this off. Impossible.

Have you read the actual conclusion of the "official" 911 story. It looks like a three year old compiled it. I'm sorry but I just don't believe
any of it, and I never will.

Thanks for responding to my post, I respect your opinion although I don't agree.

I was kind of being sarcastic about the drugs. This war that is going on in the Middle East actually started when George Bush Sr. was President. I
think it was called Operation Desert Storm.

Same war today just on a much larger scale. You are absolutely right about the oil, power, and control. The PTB are in fact working to accomplish The
New World Order. If I remember correctly, George Bush Sr. was pretty vocal about the NWO's agenda just before Operation Desert Storm was launched.

Is terrorism a problem? Certainly. The only thing is, the terrorist aren't who we think they are.

A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam
without a passport.

Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his experience, talked exclusively with MLive.com and confirmed he was on the
flight by sending a picture of his boarding pass. He and his wife, Lori, were returning from a safari in Uganda when they boarded the NWA flight on
Friday.

Haskell said he and his wife were sitting on the ground near their boarding gate in Amsterdam, which is when they saw Mutallab approach the gate with
an unidentified man.

Kurt and Lori Haskell are attorneys with Haskell Law Firm in Taylor. Their expertise includes bankruptcy, family law and estate planning.

While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether
Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, 'He's from Sudan and we do this all the time.'”

Mutallab is Nigerian. Haskell believes the man may have been trying to garner sympathy for Mutallab's lack of documents by portraying him as a
Sudanese refugee.

The ticket agent referred Mutallab and his companion to her manager down the hall, and Haskell didn't see Mutallab again until after he allegedly
tried to detonate an explosive on the plane.

Haskell said the flight was mostly unremarkable. That was until he heard a flight attendant say she smelled smoke, just after the pilot announced the
plane would land in Detroit in 10 minutes. Haskell got out of his seat to view the brewing commotion.

“I stood up and walked a couple feet ahead to get a closer look, and that's when I saw the flames,” said Haskell, who sat about seven rows behind
Mutallab. “It started to spread pretty quickly. It went up the wall, all the way to ceiling.”

Haskell, who described Mutallab as a diminutive man who looks like a teenager, said about 30 seconds passed between the first mention of smoke and
when Mutallab was subdued by fellow passengers.

“He didn't fight back at all. This wasn't a big skirmish,” Haskell said. “A couple guys jumped on him and hauled him away.”

The ordeal has Haskell and his wife a little shaken. Flight attendants were screaming during the fire and the pilot sounded notably nervous when
bringing the plane in for a landing, he said.

“Immediately, the pilot came on and said two words: emergency landing,” Haskell said. “And that was it. The plane sped up instead of slowing
down. You could tell he floored it.”

As Mutallab was being led out of the plane in handcuffs, Haskell said he realized that was the same man he saw trying to board the plane in
Amsterdam.

Passengers had to wait about 20 minutes before they were allowed to exit the plane. Haskell said he and other passengers waited about six hours to be
interviewed by the FBI.

About an hour after landing, Haskell said he saw another man being taken into custody. But a spokeswoman from the FBI in Detroit said Mutallab was the
only person taken into custody.

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